McAfee, Inc. founder may be sent back to Belize in relation to a murder.

UPDATE: John McAfee was rushed from jail to the hospital after suffering two mild heart attacks, his lawyer confirmed to Reuters. Whether the heart attacks delay attempts to extradite McAfee to Belize isn't clear, but Guatemalan officials seem intent on deporting him. A spokesman for the immigration department said "immediate deportation had been ruled out," but Reuters quoted two other Guatemalan officials saying they intend to deport McAfee. "He entered the country illegally and we are going to seek his expulsion for this crime," Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla said, according to the Reuters report. Another government spokesman named Francisco Cuevas also said McAfee will be expelled to Belize.

Original story follows:

John McAfee, the fugitive software company founder who is wanted by authorities in relation to a murder in Belize, was arrested in Guatemala today for "entering the country illegally," the Associated Press reported.

What will happen next remains uncertain, but McAfee may well be sent back to Belize, which has named him a "person of interest" in the shooting death of Gregory Faull. McAfee founded the security company McAfee in 1987 but resigned from the company in 1994 and no longer has any connection to it.

Upon being placed in jail, McAfee immediately looked for a way to continue updating his blog:

I am in jail in Guatemala. Vastly superior to Belize jails. I asked for a computer and one magically appeared. The coffee is also excellent.

Only time will tell what will happen. No one has a crystal ball. However, I would be truly shocked if I did not conduct the press conference tomorrow as I had originally planned.

Stay tuned.

I believe, by the way, that blogging from a jail cell might be a groundbreaking activity. Let’s see if it catches on.

John

A little later, McAfee was back with an update: "My lawyer just brought a judge to the jail and the judge issued a stay order until a higher judge can review the case. This effectively stops Immigration from returning me to the Belize border. So….. the urgency is eased a bit."

McAfee had tried to claim asylum in Guatemala, but he was arrested at a hotel "in an upscale part of Guatemala City," the AP report said. "We are awaiting instructions from the Foreign Ministry. It will be the foreign relations department that decides the process," Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla said in relation to whether Guatemalan authorities intend to send McAfee back to Belize.

McAfee's lawyer, Telesforo Guerra, said "He will be in danger if he is returned to Belize, where he has denounced authorities."

At the jail, McAfee reported a pleasant scene. He was using the computer of one of the wardens, who "is a sweet man and a gentleman." McAfee's girlfriend, Sam, "is fine, by the way. She is under my attorney’s charge—and some Israeli bodyguards. Serious looking fellows with plenty of body mass. Made me worry a bit less about Sam. She is worried about me, of course, but I have a more optimistic view of things."

"Everyone here is nice," McAfee continued. "And sympathetic. So far, my experience on the inside of this establishment has worn away a bit of my natural cynicism and added a measure of hope for humanity."

McAfee also responded to one person who asked if he'd considered suicide, saying "I enjoy living, and suicide is absurdly redundant. The world, from the very begining, hurls viruses, accidents, hungry animals, defective DNA — and uncountable more – in an attempt to kill us. It always succeeds. Suicide is simply aiding and abetting.”

McAfee also responded to one person who asked if he'd considered suicide, saying "I enjoy living, and suicide is absurdly redundant. The world, from the very begining, hurls viruses, accidents, hungry animals, defective DNA — and uncountable more – in an attempt to kill us. It always succeeds. Suicide is simply aiding and abetting.”

At first I thought his statement on suicide was kind of clever. But then I thought, "Isn't murder also aiding and abetting?" I realize he's only a person of interest at this point, but if it turns out that he's guilty of murder, then he's also a hypocrite.

While he's obviously at least partially nuts, his side of the story does sound somewhat reasonable. He could be a crazy murderer, but I would want to see a lot of proof before I believed it. It's not like corrupt South American countries are known for their fairness and justice towards people calling them out.

the three minute video clip vice posted helped fill in the blanks: the man has a ridiculous ego. after a segment where he demands a suit, then demands the tailor hurry, he's sitting at a table, boasting to his lawyer that "every newspaper in the world will fly in instantly."

indeed, he does seem to draw a crowd of cameras. the swarm flows up to him and his girl. he says to her, "you've never seen this before, have you?"

"no, never in my life!" she replies.

"this is my life in america, sweetie" he explains to her. "so, you'll see that i am quite comfortable with this."

it struck me as a wily old scoundrel wowing a naive young lady. his general comport was that of a spoiled rock star. he's raising this brouhaha because he gets off on it. still can't tell if he's guilty, or just self-centered to the point of paranoid schizophrenia. there may very well be some corrupt nonsense going on in belieze, but i suspect his problems stem from his level of... sass.

He sounds like a sociopath, a man is dead and all he can think of is blogging from a jail cell. If he needed asylum from Belize he should have gone back to the US.

He isn't able to return to the US due to previous legal issues which prevent him from being granted entry into the country.

edit: At least, that is what I read here. I am going to try to find a source.

Nothing is preventing his entry into this country. If rumors are true and he's wanted for questioning in relation to a wrongful death here as well, he would have to face the authorities, but they can't possibly be as corrupt as the ones in Belize.

McAfee sounds like a pretty cool dude. Murderer or not, I think I would enjoy a pleasant conversation with him.

I doubt you'd be able to have anything that resembled a two-way exchange

I generally get along great with people similar to him. I would foresee no actual problems conversing with McAfee, other than the fact that I would at first be constantly thinking of the software bearing his name.

He has a world view that put him in a place like Belize, by choice. He is not unintelligent, and he can clearly take care of himself no matter what trouble he ends up in, so it is unlikely this is even the weirdest story he has to tell, just the most public.

While he's obviously at least partially nuts, his side of the story does sound somewhat reasonable. He could be a crazy murderer, but I would want to see a lot of proof before I believed it. It's not like corrupt South American countries are known for their fairness and justice towards people calling them out.

He sounds like the 2nd most interesting man in the world. I don't believe the murder charge, unless there is some other part to the story. McAfee doesn't need to kill anyone, but she should have moved a long time ago when the federales started pestering him for money. You either play the game or get out of town. he did neither, and I think that's where his ego got him.

Nothing is preventing his entry into this country. If rumors are true and he's wanted for questioning in relation to a wrongful death here as well, he would have to face the authorities, but they can't possibly be as corrupt as the ones in Belize.

I've lived in the U.S. all my life, and travelled extensively in Latin America. I'm not so sure about that.

What makes you all so sure he's not just hamming all this up to try and get maximum media exposure to make sure he's not just silently snuffed out? The way he's done things he can't really quietly disappear now.